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[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: rdiff-backup-1.2.8-3 -- incremental remote backup/mirror


This is a bug fix release that adds a Cygwin patch to call
setlocale(LC_ALL, '') to pick up the user's locale settings. This
enables rdiff-backup to work when file names include multi-byte
characters.

DESCRIPTION:
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rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a
network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source
directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special
subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover
files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features
of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves
subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid
ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and
resource forks. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth
efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use
rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote
location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally,
rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults.

DOWNLOAD:
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allowed due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will need to
find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to
you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html

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